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the fisheries will also be considered, and, further, investigations of 

 the high atmosphere will he made in connection with the airship 

 navigation. An annual sum of 60,000 lire is appropriated by the 

 government, which also supplies the ships needed from the Royal 

 navy. Four cruises in the Adriatic sea have already taken place, 

 and a fifth cruise will soon start. 



9. International Congress of the Applications of Electricity. — 

 An International Congress of the Applications of Electricity will 

 be held in Turin, from September 9 to 20, 1911. A circular from 

 the committee of organization has been issued. Communications 

 to it should be sent to 10 Via San Paolo, Milan. 



10. International Congress of Applied Chemistry. — The eighth 

 International Congress of Applied Chemistry will have its open- 

 ing meeting in Washington on September 4, 1912 ; other meet- 

 ings, business and scientific, will be held in New York from Sep- 

 tember 6 to 13. The president is Dr. W. H. Nichols, and the 

 secretary, Dr. B. C. Hesse of 25 Broad St., New York City. Dr. 

 E. W. Morley is honorary president. 



11. German Anthropological Society. — The forty-second meet- 

 ing of the German Anthropological Society — the fifth combined 

 meeting of Germany and Vienna — will be held in Heilbronn, 

 from August 6 to 9, 1911. 



12. University of Bologna. — The University of Bologna will 

 celebrate on the 12th of June the fiftieth anniversary of the ap- 

 pointment of Professor Giovanni Capellini to the chair of Geology. 

 His contributions to geological science and his work in inspiring 

 others in the same line are so important that the occasion should 

 be a highly notable one. The president of the committee is 

 Professor Augusto Righi, and the secretaries are Professors Vit- 

 torio Simonelli and Albano Sorbelli. 



Obituary. 



Dr. Samuel H. Scudder, the naturalist, died at his home in 

 Cambridge, Mass., on May 17 at the age of seventy-four years. 

 He was early (1862-4) active in connection with the Agassiz 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, and later with the Boston 

 Society of Natural History. He was also assistant librarian of 

 Harvard University in 1879-82 and paleontologist of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey from 1886-92. He was the author of many 

 original memoirs on insects, recent and fossil, and his valuable 

 contribution to science brought him recognition from numerous 

 scientific societies at home and abroad. 



M. Edouard Dupont, the geologist and director of the Royal 

 Museum of Natural History at Brussels, died March 31, at the 

 age of seventy years. 



Thomas Rupert Jones, F.R.S., the veteran English geologist, 

 formerly Professor of Geology at Staff College, Sandhurst, died 

 on April 13, in his 92d year. 



Prof. J. Bosscha, the Dutch physicist, died on April 15, at 

 the age of seventy-nine years. 



